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Apples - Medium on MM106
3.5 – 4.5m in height, recommended for orchards on good soils
well, drained. Resistant to woolly aphids. Fruit produced early
in life of the tree.
DISCOVERY
Medium round flat apple flushed bright blood red, russet on top.
4- week ripening period in Feb. A juicy, fairly sweet apple, with
a pleasant flavour, firm flesh and finely textured. A reliable cropper,
shows resistance to blackspot.
GRANNY SMITH
A large, late, crisp green, exceptionally white fleshed apple, good
for dessert or cooking with excellent keeping quality. An upright
and vigorous tree, which is self-thinning. Also
available on Northern Spy rootstock – mature height 3-4m,
a particularly good rootstock as resistant to woolly aphids.
MONTY'S SURPRISE "An apple a day keeps the Doctor
away"
This apple is a chance find. A very old tree, probably
a seedling. The apples tend to vary in size and can weigh as much
as 400 grams. A crisp, good eating apple and an excellent cooking
apple ready in April. An exciting find as it has high levels of
flavonoids and other beneficial compounds that may inhibit the growth
of cancer cells. Monty's Surprise and Hetlina show remarkably high
levels of beneficial compounds. Over 50% of the beneficail compounds
in apples reside in the skin, so don't peel your apples but eat
them skin and all.
Edible Garden is proud to be paying a royalty to Mark Christensen
so that the "Apple Cancer Research Project" can be carried
on.
PRISCILLA
A blackspot resistant apple bred in America, making it ideal for
organic growers and wetter areas. A fine dessert quality apple ripening
early March. Highly coloured dark red blush on a light yellow skin.
Tree moderately spreading & vigorous. Fruit ripens early March.
Also available on Northern Spy rootstock
– mature height 3-4m, a particularly good rootstock as resistant
to woolly aphids.
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